Fear not if you feel numb in meditation

August 14

 Fear not if you feel numb in meditation, in prayer, in all other practices of piety, if you feel you're still tied to the creatures, if still experiencing the struggle between the old man and the new man, if you see yourself surrounded weaknesses, for taking all this against your will, not only is there no guilt about it, but it is for you a source of merit.
These are the tests of the soul to whom God loves with a taste and you want to try when you see the strength to keep fighting and woven with his own hands the crown of glory.
(January 1919, the sisters Campanile - Letters. III, p. 989)